In a Lonely Place

Nicholas Ray, helmer of 'Rebel without a cause' presented on 1950 'In a lonely place', with Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame. The film tells the story of Dixon Steele (Bogart), a Hollywood screenwriter with trouble to come up with a good script. When he is asked to write a blockbuster, he calls Mildred Atkinson, one of the workers of his favourite restaurant, for help, so she will read the result. Atkinson helps him, but the next day, she appears dead. Dixon becomes the first suspect, but his neighbor Laurel Gray (Gloria Grahame) helps him by giving him an alibi. Dixon turns her into his new muse, and they both feel an unstoppable attraction, but Laurel doesn't know if she can trust the writer...